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Nor I, you...

posted 14 years ago by texas_phil
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Did anybody else find it striking how De Niro's character is so concerned with the way people actually speak while all of the characters around him speak in the clunkiest most un-naturalistic dialogue imaginable?

Fitz was a superb novelist and Pinter was a wonderful playwright... neither of them wrote silver screen dialogue.

The whole romantic section of the plot was painfully short of chemistry in dialogue or acting, although to be fair I have never De Niro pull off a convincing romantic scene.

[–] Overmarz87 13 years ago

It was terribly ironic. It seems like wherever the writers couldn't think of a line they simply put Mm-hmm and Uh-huh which was incredibly boring. Another thing, the acting was *beep* and the pacing of the scene where DeNiro meets the girl for the first time was overdrawn and unrealistic.

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[–] aasoloway 11 years ago

He was okay when he had scenes with Meryl Streep in The Deer Hunter - but then again she called him "weird."

[–] dixdouze 10 years ago

Monroe Stahr is not "so concerned about the way people speak"; he's completely pissed off because Kathleen (Ingrid Boulting) has just announced to leave him and the studio execs are constantly second-guessing his moviemaking decisions; he thought the liaison with Kathleen could be some compensation for his having to deal with morons all day long, so now, that this romance is over, he's unleashing his anger on the scriptwriter (Donald Pleasence) whom he treated like a schoolboy earlier on.

[–] filmklassik 8 years ago

Exactly! The scene they were watching was actually a good one, it actually worked, but Starr was using it as an outlet for his rage.